Consumption and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5HA815
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Andersson, Gudrun, A Mirror of Oneself: Possessions and the Manifestation of Status among a Local Swedish Elite, 1650-1770, Part of: Cultural and social history: the journal of the Social History Society., vol. 3, no. 1, 2006, p. 21–44
- Appadurai, Arjun, Introduction: commodities and the politics of value, Part of: The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986Compulsory
- Harvey, Karen, Ritual Encounters: Punch Parties and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century, Part of: Past & present, no. 214, 2012, p. 165–203Compulsory
- Herva, Vesa-Pekka, Buildings as persons: relationality and the life of buildings in a Northern periphery of early modern Sweden, Part of: Antiquity., 2010, p. 440–452Compulsory
- Lemire, Beverly, 'Men of the World': British Mariners, Consumer Practice, and Material Culture in an Era of Global Trade, c. 1660-1800, Part of: The journal of British studies, vol. 54, no. 2, 2015, p. 288–319Compulsory
- Maegraith, Janine; Muldrew, Craig, Consumption and Material Life, Part of: The Oxford handbook of early modern European history, 1350-1750: Vol. 1 Peoples and place, First edition., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, p. 369–397Compulsory
- Mikhail, Alan, The Heart's Desire: Gender, Urban Space and the Ottoman Coffee House, Part of: Ottoman tulips, Ottoman coffee: leisure and lifestyle in the eighteenth century, London, Tauris Academic Studies, c2007, p. 133–170Compulsory
- Norton, Marcy, Going to the Birds, Part of: Early modern things: objects and their histories, 1500-1800, New York, Routledge, 2013, p. 53–83Compulsory
- Raven, James, Printing and printedness, Part of: The Oxford handbook of early modern European history, 1350-1750: Vol. 1 Peoples and place, First edition., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, vol. 1, p. 214–243Compulsory
- Rublack, Ulinka, Dressing up: cultural identity in Renaissance Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010 (Pages to be announced.)
- Schama, Simon, Some British Addictions, Part of: New England review., vol. 22, no. 4, 2001, p. 73–78Compulsory
- Smith, Pamela H., In the Workshop of History: Making, Writing and Meaning, Part of: West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, no. 19, 2012, p. 4–31Compulsory
- Special issue on Money, Part of: Common-place: the interactive journal of early American life., vol. 6, no. 3, 2006Compulsory (http:/
/ www.common-place-archives.org/ vol-06/ no-03/ Please read introduction by Stephen Mihm and Mark Peterson, and short articles by Joyce Appleby, Jennifer J. Baker, Wim Klooster, Mark Peterson, Mark Valeri, and Michael Zakim.) - Vickery, Amanda, What Women Made, Part of: Behind closed doors: at home in Georgian England, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009, p. 231–256Compulsory
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